Day 129: Hoodwinked!

All is not well in the world of bakery. Someone has been stealing the recipes from each of the cake shops in the woods and the only one left belongs to Grandma Puckett. Her granddaughter, Red Riding Hood, decides that the only way to ensure nobody steals the recipes is if she takes them up the mountain to her Gran’s house. But the situation gets messy and the police are called in to investigate what really happened, meaning we get taken through four different stories.

It’s always interesting to see the experiences each person had that led them to the same point. I like when films and books do this, you never really get enough of the picture from just one person. The film is funny in places and I liked the crime angle but overall it’s nothing special. I’m not a fan of the animation itself, it seems really clunky and badly done. But I do realise it’s a children’s movie so the things I’d usually look for aren’t really going to be there.

6/10

Day 65: Brokeback Mountain

In the Summer of 1963, Jack (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Ennis (Heath Ledger) look after sheep on Brokeback Mountain. They both realise they’ve found a rare connection and over the years they live for the time they spend together.

Jack is quite the dreamer. He wants to be with Ennis all the time, not for them to just meet up every so often, so he suggests they get a place together on a ranch. But Ennis is realistic and tells him that they could never do it because they’d be killed if anyone found out and besides, they both have families now. It breaks my heart when Jack looks sad and disappointed. He just wants so badly to be with Ennis but there are so many things in the way. So when he hears that Ennis got a divorce, he drives 14 hours to see him thinking they can now give it a chance, but he’s shot down again. I know Ennis was finding it more difficult to deal with his feelings than Jack but his keeping him close but distant at the same time just wasn’t fair. The last time they see each other they fight and we get the line everybody knows, “I wish I knew how to quit you.” It’s been 20 years and he can’t get past him and he is finding it too much to bear. Jack, my baby.

I don’t think there’s anything sweeter than the moment depicted in the image at the top of the post. They’re together and they’re happy. I’m going to pretend that’s how they always were.

8/10